Austin's Artspace Crisis and Microvenues

Are home art galleries and mini-performance venues the answer to the space crunch?

"...This Saturday night, when Pump Project Art Complex closes its exhibition "The Door by the Garden,"..."

June 22, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vision of a New Republic

Plans for the Revitalization of Republic Square

"...parks, and working with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department to give some attention to those parks. It really..."

July 13, 2001 News Feature by Chale Nafus

Showcase Showdown

The Austin Museum of Digital Art's programming challenges our notions of creativity

"...& Grill on South Congress, a group of digital artists and musicians, as well as fans of digital art..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Painting With Sound

"...Walter Thompson (r) leads Joshua Taylor and Jason Phelps..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Articulations

IRS OKs G&S @ CCP

"...pretty much sealed the deal. Mellin says that Playhouse Artistic Director Richard Brown and his staff struck the old..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Arts Column

Whatever Now

A Report on Heather Woodbury on the Verge of Fame

"...Heather Woodbury is standing on the brink, looking into..."

April 25, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Ripe and Ready's Heartwork

"...There's something almost punk rock about performance art and poetry -- outside academic circles, both art..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature

Basquiat

"...Gary Oldman, Courtney Love, Parker Posey, Elina Lowensohn, Paul Bartel, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Tatum O'Neal. Basquiat gives..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...A toast, please, to the 170-plus artists and creative projects recognized in the nominations for the..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pride Piper

Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table

"...revival, one night only, and the founders of Austin's upstart queer multimedia variety show have chosen drama for the..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984

The overall effect of "The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984" is almost patriotic, showing an appreciation of the radical thought and freedom of action that made the U.S. the young revolutionary in that time

"..."The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984"..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

David Leslie's Impact Addict Videos

"...Directed by: Larry Fessenden. Performance artist and UT art professor David Leslie (whose New..."

March 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Karen Finley Reviewed

"...384 pp., $17.95 (paper) In 1990, four notable American artists were denied funding from the National Endowment for the..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Arts Feature

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2015, and April..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

OUTsider Begins

Hold on to your manties, Austin's premier queer fest is here

"...This first-ever OUTsider boasts collaborative roots, a gang of artists on a mission to showcase queer artists and their..."

Feb. 18, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

The Artist Will See You Now

AFS Doc Night screens Marina Abramović portrait

"...film, a riveting portrait of the über-outré, Belgrade-born, 65-year-old performance artist, who is probably best known for her decades..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Always Be Chloe-sing

Mary Lynn Rajskub on moving from 24 to stand-up

"...Rajskub from 24, that shift in occupation may seem startling. But the Michigan native, whose last name is Czech..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2013, and April..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Will Bravo's new show Work of Art class up the reality TV genre?

"...conflicted about it. The new show is Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, which premiered on Bravo last..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Are You Experienced?

Why art that actively engages audiences is quintessentially Austin

"...cheering on employees from the city's Solid Waste Services department as they performed choreographed dances with their carts, cranes,..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Man on the Moon

"...tries to capture the essence of the Andy Kaufman performance mystique. The image might more accurately describe the motion..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...the monumental playwrights of yore, the Tennessee Williamses and Arthur Millers, at home on Broadway, their messages proclaimed in..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Salome: Under the Veils, No Heart

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May 21, 1999 Arts Review

South by Spoken Word

No Slam, Thank You, Ma'am

"...of the most notable poets on the slam and performance poetry circuits. But because the National Poetry Slam will..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature by Phil West

Sxsw

"...The rest is up to you. On second thought, start panicking.... -- Raoul Hernandez THURSDAY PICKS..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Madeline's Madeline

"...the idea of improvised drama as something exceptional: Every artist improvises, they said, it’s just that most creatives have..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Protos Place

AMODA's first fest marks a new start

"...The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) has risen from some obscure but impressive ashes...."

May 29, 2013 Screens Post by Nate Jackson

By the Time I Get to Austin

Q&A with FFFF headliner Chuck D of Public Enemy

"..."Artists need to know who they are, what they are,..."

Nov. 1, 2011 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...a really good feel for the kind of theatre artist Dan Dietz is, it helps to have a sense..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius

Time to get slack once again with the bizarro Austin anti-cult

"...subscription fee for this new fringe theology masquerading as performance art and satire. (Or was it performance art and..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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